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WIFEHOOD

/ˈwʌɪfhʊd/8 letters

Definition of WIFEHOOD

noun

The quality or state of being a wife.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English wifhode, wifhod, wifhede, from Old English wīfhād (“femininity; the female sex”), equivalent to wife + -hood.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

WIFEHOOD in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 2 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
116
First board
119
Latest board
3
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 116, 13 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 116, 13 September 2026.

Built from these letters

WIFEHOOD
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

WIFEHOOD starts with W and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEFHIOOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start WIFEHO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WIFEHOOD?

OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 116 - and most players walked straight past it.

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